Favorite F1 Wallpaper Ever

Favorite F1 Wallpaper Ever
Originally uploaded by afsilva

I am so not a Renault fan, but man, this Formula 1 wallpaper is possibly the coolest I've ever seen. (source)

Running Quake 3 and 4 on Fedora 12 (64-bit)

My latest article for the Linux Gazette is out: http://linuxgazette.net/172/silva.html

February Snow at Lake Raleigh II

February Snow at Lake Raleigh II
Originally uploaded by afsilva

Beautiful snow this morning around Raleigh.

From above

From above
Originally uploaded by afsilva

A swamp reflection photo at Lake Raleigh, NC.

Lake Raleigh Pier

Lake Raleigh Pier
Originally uploaded by afsilva

Took this one last week in Raleigh, NC. I forgot to post it to the blog.

Sun

Sun
Originally uploaded by afsilva

I've decided to start posting my photos in this blog as well. Virtually all photos are entirely managed/edited/uploaded on Fedora Linux.

Sharing a keyboard and mouse with Synergy (Second Edition)

An article I co-wrote with @ashcrow a couple of years ago has been revised & republished on Linux Gazette: http://linuxgazette.net/171/silva.html

Forgot to use screen or nohup on a command?

Let's say you run a command that is taking much longer to finish executing than you thought it would, and you have to go home. Here's what you do:

1. Press ctrl + z on the terminal to suspend the command.
2. Run: bg to move the last suspended program in the background
3. Run: jobs to list programs running on background
4. disown %1 to pick job #1, %2 if it's the second job on the list. This will mark the job so that SIGHUP is not sent to it if the shell receives a SIGHUP.

Note: Thanks to my buddy John Eckersberg for showing me this today :-)

rpmrebuild-2.4-2.fc12 is out!

The newest update to rpmrebuild has hit the Fedora 12 repo tonight. The new features are:

• add -l / --list-plugin option
• add -5 / --md5-compat-digest option
• Requires rpm-build

Enjoy!

AS

Firefox 3.6 on Fedora 12 (remi repo)

Remi has published a Firefox 3.6 RPM for Fedora 12.

In this screenshot, I'm using one of the new features of FF 3.6, personas. Learn more about it.

I've also installed a couple of new plugins:

Flagfox, displays the flag of the country in which the server you are hitting is located.

Weave Sync, synchs bookmark, history, tabs and passwords of your Firefox... I don't recommend synching passwords personally.

A feature that I personally enjoyed is the 'built-in' extension recommendations for Firefox. It's a nice quick way of playing around with new extensions to expands the browser's capabilities.